Sep14: The beginning of a looooong trip

Flying around the world is definitely something I wanted to do with Star Alliance... I simply love most of their airlines and I have been collecting miles there forever. When I checked for affordable tickets, the only ones which could include the Easter Islands were One World, because only LAN serves that tiny remote island. Since it would have been significantly more expensive otherwise, I chose to fly with them. At least they don't have Aeroflot in their alliance. :)

But they do have BA, which is not as bad as their airport, I thought. 

Well, since last night I tried to check in online in order to secure a window seat for the 14:35h flight to Buenos Aires tonight. But even this afternoon at 3 pm I was still "too early" for check in and the website told me that I could only check in 24h before the flight. Well,... 

By this afternoon I had of course quadruplechecked the date and year of my flight. :)

In the end I got to check in like an old lady at the counter with my passport and everything and even scored a window seat on tonight's long flight... So only the Terminal 5 hatred is still there and even that is fading. It is actually nice here and aside from not working power plugs my experience is much better than last time when I was stuck here for 36h in a 2inch/5cm "snowstorm".

Coming back to the tearful good bye... No, I won't get into that. I told Grandma she will just have to count down the days, which she gladly accepted once she figured out that it is not that long. Today is the 14th and I will come back on the 20th... Piece of cake! 

I don't know what was wrong with people today... They boarded and deboarded abnormally slowly. Maybe it was because there were only tourists or was I just too excited to get on the plane and then out again? To get everyone on board in Munich took more than half an hour. 

Some people were extremely busy checking every row number all the way from 5 to 28 where they were actually sitting. Maybe someone mixed in 28 before 12... You never know...

At least here in Terminal 5 all is the same. I am sitting in Lisa's and my favorite restaurant where hours and hours were spent years ago and it almost seems cool... Or is that the A/C?

Enough with the jokes...

Thanks Dad for driving me to the airport... The soldier in the storm :)

Oh, and I will attach pictures of "the owl" still to get a name. That is a gift from my Godchild Eva and I am taking her around the world, showing her things.

Stop No1: London Heathrow - GB check!